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Télécharger le livre :  Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice
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Explaining Disease: Philosophical Reflections on Medical Research and Clinical Practice


Raffaella Campaner


This interdisciplinary monograph in philosophy of medicine examines models of explanation in health science and their relation with current medical trends, such as personalized and person-centered medicine. Medicine has provided challenging case studies for the...

Parution : 2022-08-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Kant's Cosmology
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Kant's Cosmology


Brigitte Falkenburg


This book provides a comprehensive account of Kant’s development from the 1755/56 metaphysics to the cosmological antinomy of 1781. With the Theory of the Heavens (1755) and the Physical Monadology (1756), the young Kant had presented an ambitious approach to physical...

Parution : 2020-12-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond
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Mechanistic Explanations in Physics and Beyond


Brigitte Falkenburg , Gregor Schiemann


This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations. Coverage ranges from historical approaches and general questions to physics and higher-level sciences . The contributors also consider the topics of complexity, emergence, and...

Parution : 2019-08-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology
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Quantum Mechanics Between Ontology and Epistemology


Florian J. Boge


This book explores the prospects of rivaling ontological and epistemic interpretations of quantum mechanics (QM). It concludes with a suggestion for how to interpret QM from an epistemological point of view and with a Kantian touch. It thus refines, extends, and...

Parution : 2018-10-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy of Science
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Philosophy of Science


Alexander Christian , David Hommen , Nina Retzlaff , Gerhard Schurz


This broad and insightful book presents current scholarship in important subfields of philosophy of science and addresses an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary readership. It groups carefully selected contributions into the four fields of I) philosophy of physics,...

Parution : 2018-03-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction
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Pragmatic Idealism and Scientific Prediction


Amanda Guillán


This monograph analyzes Nicholas Rescher’s system of pragmatic idealism. It also looks at his approach to prediction in science. Coverage highlights a prominent contribution to a central topic in the philosophy and methodology of science.  The author offers a full...

Parution : 2017-08-30
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Télécharger le livre :  The Union of Chemistry and Physics
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The Union of Chemistry and Physics


Hinne Hettema


This monograph deals with the interrelationship between chemistry and physics, and especially the role played by quantum chemistry as a theory in between these two disciplines. The author uses structuralist approach to explore the overlap between the two sciences,...

Parution : 2017-08-01
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Télécharger le livre :  EPSA15 Selected Papers
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EPSA15 Selected Papers


Michela Massimi , Jan-Willem Romeijn , Gerhard Schurz


This edited collection showcases some of the best recent research in the philosophy of science. It comprises of thematically arranged papers presented at the 5th conference of the European Philosophy of Science Association (EPSA15), covering a broad variety of topics...

Parution : 2017-04-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Making it Formally Explicit
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Making it Formally Explicit


Gábor Hofer-Szabó , Leszek Wronski


This book collects research papers on the philosophical foundations of probability, causality, spacetime and quantum theory. The papers are related to talks presented in six subsequent workshops organized by The Budapest-Kraków Research Group on Probability, Causality...

Parution : 2017-04-18
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Télécharger le livre :  Rethinking Knowledge
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Rethinking Knowledge


Carlo Cellucci


This monograph addresses the question of the increasing irrelevance of philosophy, which has seen scientists as well as philosophers concluding that philosophy is dead and has dissolved into the sciences. It seeks to answer the question of whether or not philosophy can...

Parution : 2017-03-29
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Télécharger le livre :  The Deep Metaphysics of Space
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The Deep Metaphysics of Space


Edward Slowik


This volume explores the inadequacies of the two standard conceptions of space or spacetime, substantivalism and relationism, and in the process, proposes a new historical interpretation of these physical theories. This book also examines and develops alternative...

Parution : 2016-10-12
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Télécharger le livre :  A Pluralist Theory of the Mind
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A Pluralist Theory of the Mind


David Ludwig


This book challenges common debates in philosophy of mind by questioning the framework of placement problems in contemporary metaphysics. The author argues that placement problems arise when exactly one fundamental ontology serves as the base for all entities, and will...

Parution : 2015-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki
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Recent Developments in the Philosophy of Science: EPSA13 Helsinki


Uskali Mäki , Stéphanie Ruphy , Gerhard Schurz , Ioannis Votsis


This volume showcases the best of recent research in the philosophy of science. A compilation of papers presented at the EPSA 13, it explores a broad distribution of topics such as causation, truthlikeness, scientific representation, gender-specific medicine,  laws of...

Parution : 2015-09-09
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